<div class="sidebar">
 <!-- Sidebar List ************************************************************* -->
    
                    <ul>
                    	
						<?php 	/* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
                        if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar') ) : ?>
                        
                         <!-- ************************************************************* -->
                                <li>
                                	<div class="sidebar_top">
                                    	<div class="sidebar_bg">
                                            <h3><?php _e('Recent Entries'); ?></h3>
                                            <ul>
                                                <?php $recent = new WP_Query("showposts=6"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
                                                <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
                                                <?php endwhile; ?>
                                            </ul>
                                       </div>
                                 	</div>
                                </li>
                         <!-- ************************************************************* -->
                         		<li>
                                	<div class="sidebar_top">
                                    	<div class="sidebar_bg">
                                        <h3><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h3>
                                        <ul><?php wp_list_categories('title_li'); ?></ul>
                                       </div>
                                 	</div>
                                </li>
                         <!-- ************************************************************* -->
                                <li>
                                	<div class="sidebar_top">
                                    	<div class="sidebar_bg">
                                        <div class="sideBarTitle"><h3><?php _e('<span>browse</span> Popular Tags'); ?></h3></div>
                                        <?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=10&largest=22&number=30'); ?>
                                       </div>
                                 	</div>
                                </li>
                         <!-- ************************************************************* -->
                         		<li>
                                	<div class="sidebar_top">
                                    	<div class="sidebar_bg">
                                	
                                        <h3><?php _e('Meta'); ?></h3>
                                        <ul>
										 <?php wp_register(); ?>
                                            <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
                                            <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries RSS</a></li>
                                            <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments RSS</a></li>
                                            <li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid 
                                              <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
                                            <li><a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>
                                            <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>
                                         <?php wp_meta(); ?>
                                        </ul>
                                       </div>
                                 	</div>
                                </li>
                         <!-- ************************************************************* -->
                         
                        <?php endif; ?>
                    </ul>
<!-- Close Sidebar List ************************************************************* -->
</div>
